I'm not watching the video, too late, so break it down.

The funny thing about 50 shades is that my mother watched it, and until I explained it to her she didn't even know it was supposed to be a romance! She thought it was a drama, and that Christian Grey was meant to be seen as a villain who manipulates the innocent girl into doing things she wouldn't otherwise do. She didn't believe me at first when I said that it was meant to be romantic. And considering that she falls right into the middle aged mom demographic that made the movie so popular, that's saying something.

Used to be called Master of the Universe. No relation to He-Man.

You know what really grinds my gears? When people buy expensive shoes then they complain about them getting dirty. I'd understand if you plan on displaying on them. But no, you wear them. They get dirty, you complain. Shoes are supposed to get dirty! They prevent your feet from getting dirty, thus get dirty themselves! So stop complaining!

I bet those are the same people who buy an expensive sports car with a beautiful paint job, and then deliberately take up two spaces in every parking lot they visit.

I bet those are the same people who buy an expensive sports car with a beautiful paint job, and then deliberately take up two spaces in every parking lot they visit.

You know what really grinds my gears? People running attack ads or spreading negative rumors about politicians' families. It's ridiculous how often I see people ridiculing Mrs. Obama's appearance--to say nothing of the utterly ridiculous rumor that she was born male. And then there's this whole business about Mrs. Trump's racy past, the attack ads ridiculing Mrs. Cruz's appearance, and now I've even seen people digging up an old rumor about Mr. Clinton from back when he was President (said rumor seems to have disappeared from the media around the time he left office, which makes it rather dubious in my eyes). These people aren't running for office! Why the [censored] are you slinging mud at them!? And even if they were running for office, none of it has any bearing on their competence as politicians! Stick to the people actually running for office (and stick to stuff that actually has some sort of relevance to how well they'd perform in public office).

now I've even seen people digging up an old rumor about Mr. Clinton from back when he was President (said rumor seems to have disappeared from the media around the time he left office, which makes it rather dubious in my eyes). These people aren't running for office! Why the [censored] are you slinging mud at them!?

AFAIK, that's Trump's way of trying to hinder Hillary Clinton's image -- appealing to her husband's rumoured past affairs, or even crazier, unfounded stories. Bringing this kind of thing up right now only shows how desperate he is, IMO.

When people try to defend Islam, they usually bring up how Christianity is also bad. That's no defense of Islam, when you have to attack another religion distract people.

I know in the case of series' like AA this is to do with localisation...

Poor customer service.

So back on May 3, I ordered a physical copy Dragon Quest Heroes off of Square's online store because it was on sale for over half off. I had previously ordered games from their site before with no problems. I was expected to receive my game on the 10th. Come to find out, it was shipped to the wrong address, but since that address didn't exist, it was sent back to their company. That was fine. I got in touch with Square, let them know what had happened, provided my purchase info, sent them the corrected address, and they got back in touch with me after about 3 days saying that they had corrected it and would ship the game to me.

This was well over 3 weeks ago and since then I have heard nothing since about my game, if it has ever been shipped back out or what. Nothing. For the past 2 weeks now, I've tried getting back in touch with them about 4 or so times now (twice a week) as I've gotten concerned about not hearing anything about my game since. Previously when I got in touch with them the first time, I heard back within a few days. I have yet to receive anything from them addressing my concerns. I can understand them being busy, but it shouldn't take 2 weeks from even my initial e-mail since I've started worrying about my product for me to hear a response.

Honestly at this point, with the lack of communication and no update whatsoever on my product, I'm convinced that me ever receiving my product is a lost cause. At this point I'm starting to consider talking about taking legal action at this point.... over something that only cost me about $25, which is really absurd. I'm giving them until this Monday to hear anything from them at all.

I've sent them e-mails out this past Sunday and Wednesday so surely I expect to hear something before then, but taking into account that I also e-mailed them twice last week as well and have yet to hear anything, I really have my doubts. I get that the wrong address could lie on me, but with them initially e-mailing me and saying they fixed it, the entirety of the problem now lies in Square's hands. I honestly don't want to have to go as far as to bring up taking legal action against for something seemingly small, but it's absurd with how lackluster their lack of communication has been and their false promise on their site that they will for sure get back in touch with me within a few days when it's been almost over 2 weeks.

Seriously, all I wanted to do was enjoy a game. It's disgusting how something that was so simple has grown into something so complicated all simply because of a severe lack of communication between the customer and the company. I've done my part, I'd expect the company to do the same. Don't give me one e-mail ensuring what is a false promise at this point and leave me hanging for over 3 weeks after that trying to find any clue whatsoever as to what's going on.

And yeah, I'd have put this in the rant thread instead, but poor customer service as a whole, I feel, is something that needs to be addressed and dealt with. I try to have patience with others because I understand they can be too busy at times. But there does come a time where having to wait too long starts to become less about understanding they're busy and more feeling like you're being ignored or forgotten, and sad to say, that's how I feel with my issue with Square's online store right now.

Trust me, that was the first thing I tried. Sadly, they have no way of getting directly in contact with them. The only number available is some Final Fantasy XIV help number. Their site has no number for me to contact otherwise. Even when I got in contact with the other number, they directed me to customer support on their site, even though I had asked for a number. So basically, I'm stuck with that as my only option. Believe me, I'd rather go through phone than e-mail any day. Basically, as far as I know, and trust me, I spent several hours looking, they have no phone number to where you can contact them for customer support.

Do they have an official facebook or twitter? Sometimes I find publicly shouting at a company on a site like that gets more action than a private email.

People should be allowed to express displeasure without having to be derided and demeaned by other people who think their views are worthless.

There's nothing wrong with venting (which is the purpose of the Vent Thread), but I see no point in shaming someone in your whining on social media posts. If you got a problem with how something went down in an establishment, how about you bring it up in person, at the location, at the time when it happened? It's a given that people on the internet will make it a huger stink than it is.

C-A

People should be allowed to express displeasure without having to be derided and demeaned by other people who think their views are worthless.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

It's based on the BOOKS, not on the FILMS, damn it, and as far as I know, you're never really told a lot about how she looks like in the books. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm not against having characters represented by different races or sexual preferences. I have a problem when a character that's been established is suddenly changed just so they can look more progressive or appeal to a different audience.

See, I agree with this. Unless there's a good reason for a skincolor or sexuality change, I don't want it to happen.
Though, I'll be absolutely honest, I cannot even THINK of a good reason for changing the skincolor or sexuality of an established character!

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In fact, the way you point it out, if they do it just to look "progressive", it will piss me off more than if they had 'left' them hetero. It feels like they are flaunting the fact of "Ooooh, we have a bisexual/asexual/homosexual/pansexual/etc character. PRAISE US!" and expect a freaking Nobelprize for it. In fact, unless the sexuality is important - because of love interests or it plays into the plot in other important ways - don't even tell me their sexuality! Leave me to decide on my own.

While I'm not huge on Harry Potter, having Hermoine being portrayed by a black person honestly doesn't bother me too much. What bothers me is how I've been hearing the author suddenly saying that she was never white when she clearly was, just so she could make her character seem more progressive.